Transplants part of a "gold plated insurance policy"  

Sorry I was dumbfounded at that part of the debate. Anything after the average American's cost for health insurance was something like $5,500. LOL OMG what has he been smoking? Maybe he meant young single people. I don't know. We have a ten thousand dollar deductible and we pay almost four thousand a year out of pocket for the policy itself. I don't know how much my husbands employer kicks in, probably nothing So I'm sorry I missed that part.

I was wondering if anyone noticed that besides me though I hadn't considered the hair transplant angle. I hope that he did mean hair transplants.

To me, personally, that was the point in the debate where McCain was most clueless and out of touch. My son and I have both had major spine surgery -- my son when he was 18, myself in my fifties. If I had not had one of those cadillac insurance plans through my employer, the both of us would have had a future of unendurable suffering. Plastic surgery, my @. As for the transplants, the hair transplants must have been what he meant, I didnt' think of it at the time.

I gleaned John McCain has no concept of all of what it costs to need surgery or major medical treatment.

This is what I think happened.

See, in debate two, McCain used the same line. Hair transplants were the last thing mentioned, and he made a very weak joke about maybe needing that himself. Not only wasn't it really funny, but it kind of had the effect of reminding people that McCain has health care superior to most Americans'.

Now, in this last debate, it looks like McCain wanted to repeat the line, but not use the same weak joke, but I think he unintentionally 'cut the line' back too far, and ended up leaving not only the joke out, but the word "hair" as well.

Does that sound plausible to you?

Hey spalladino! Just another dumb slip from a dumb azz!
I don't think it was funny and yes there were probably
alot of very confused people who took it seriously to
mean organ transplants. There more he opens his mouth,
the more he reminds me of Bush!~ Not a compliment and
quite frightening! Don't people see this? Do they really
want this man to spend 4 years (if he makes it) trying
to run the country? God help us! I may not like the
alternative, but I'll be damned it I'm going to support
another 4 years of a Bush moron! And all you haters, I
have the right to express my opinions so back off!
Freedom of Speech! I'm not trying to rant or Flame!

I would want to think he meant organ transplants but he did use it in the same sentence as face lifts so I'd say he actually meant hair transplants.

I thank all you all for clearing this up for me because I hadn't had the opportunity to straighten it out in my head although I was shocked in the same way by the statement because I hadn't heard the other about hair transplants.
Two things: The amtter about the cost of insurance, as has been said, is waaaaay out of line. My employer was paying over $2K monthly for my coverage. #2 is that a transplant is such an expensive affair that people are screened out if they are not able to prove that they will be able to cover the expensive follow up. This is serious business.